Biography

Ibrahim Shekho Mufradi, was born in the year 1900 in the village of Lere, belonging to the Shirwan Mazn sub-district in the Mergasor district of Erbil Governorate. Before going to the Soviet Union, he was married, and his wife's name was Giyaband Aziz. They had three sons and two daughters named Susan Ibrahim (born 1924), Ali Ibrahim (born 1932), Hassan Ibrahim (born 1935), and Saeed Ibrahim (born 1947). He passed away in 1984 in the village of Brifka, belonging to the Duhok Governorate.

Struggle Record

On May 23, 1947, he accompanied General Mustafa Barzani toward the Soviet Union and participated in the Battle of Qutur and the Battle of Maku Bridge. After much hardship and fatigue, on June 18, 1947, he crossed the Aras River, which is located on the border between Iran and the Soviet Union, into the Soviet Union.

After their arrival in the Soviet Union, on June 19, 1947, along with all his companions, he was placed in the city of Nakhchivan in the Republic of Azerbaijan for forty days in an open-air complex surrounded by barbed wire. They were guarded by a group of soldiers and were treated like prisoners of war in terms of food, clothing, and movement. Later, by the decision of the Soviet government, they were distributed among the regions of Aghdam, Lachin, Ailakh, and Kalbajar in the Republic of Azerbaijan. On December 10, 1947, they were moved to a military camp on the Caspian Sea in Baku, the capital of the Republic of Azerbaijan, and on the 23rd of the same month, they were given military uniforms and, under the supervision of the officers of the Republic of Azerbaijan, were given eight hours of military training daily. At the same time, for four hours a day, some of their companions who were literate taught them lessons in learning the Kurdish language.

After the bad treatment of Jafar Bagirov toward the companions, it was decided to move the military camp on August 29, 1948, from the Republic of Azerbaijan to the Charchuk complex near Tashkent, the capital of the Republic of Uzbekistan, and there they continued their military training.

In March 1949, along with his companions, they were distributed in groups and squads by train among the collective villages of the Soviet Union and worked on the Kolkhoz farms (lands that people rented from the government and later gave the government's share back).

After much effort and sending several letters by General Barzani to Stalin, finally a letter reached Stalin in which Barzani described the hardships of his companions. He immediately decided to form a committee to investigate the situation of Barzani's companions, and finally, the committee's decision was that they should all be gathered in the city of Vriviski. Therefore, he went to the city of Vriviski in the Soviet Union in November 1951.

After the July 14, 1958 revolution in Iraq and the return of General Mustafa Barzani, on February 25, 1959, and according to both the third and seventh articles and paragraph (A) of the tenth article, and working with the eleventh article, based on the amended Law No. 19 of the year 1959, he and his companions were covered by the general amnesty.

In the year 1958, the Republic of Iraq was established under the presidency of Abdul Karim Qasim. On April 16, 1959, along with his companions, he returned to Kurdistan by the ship Grozia via the port of Basra in the south of the Republic of Iraq. 

 In the year 1961, he participated in the Aylul Revolution and was a Head of Branch. He passed away in 1984 in the village of Brifka, belonging to the Duhok Governorate.

Sources:

  1. Archive of the Kurdistan Democratic Party Encyclopedia Board.

  2. In the memoir of the Martyr Commander Haso Mirxan Zhazhoki, 62 Days with Barzani, The Going of the Barzanis to the Soviet Union, First Edition (Erbil - Roshinbiri Printing House - 1997).
  3. Masoud Barzani, Barzani and the Kurdish Liberation Movement 1931-1958, (Duhok - Khabat Printing House - 1998).
  4. Archive of the Encyclopedia Board, form of Ibrahim Shekho Mufradi Hassan, dated November 1, 2018 - Pirmam
  5. Text of the General Amnesty Committee decision to restore the reputation of the martyrs of the Barzan revolution, Rizgari Magazine, Issue 3, 2, Al-Rabita Printing House, Baghdad, April 1, 1959.